Military expenditure and unemployment rates: Granger causality tests using global panel data

Defence and Peace Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 253-267

  Tang, Jenn Hong ^a   Lai, Cheng Chung ^a   Lin, Eric S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Military spending; Panel Granger causality; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650252971     PISSN: 10242694     EISSN: 14768267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242690903105257     Document Type: Article

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